Open AccessBaltic Sea regional integration: water protection, university co-operation – and agriculture?
Author(s) -
Stefan Ewert
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
revista română de studii baltice şi nordice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2067-1725
pISSN - 2067-225X
DOI - 10.53604/rjbns.v5i2_2
Subject(s) - baltic sea , agriculture , field (mathematics) , order (exchange) , regional science , political science , geography , environmental resource management , oceanography , environmental protection , environmental planning , environmental science , business , geology , archaeology , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics
Research on Baltic Sea region building processes emphasizes the discursive elements of the emergence of the region in the beginning of the 1990s, yet lacks the analysis of policy-specific developments of regional integration around the Baltic Sea. My article argues that the neo-functionalist approach opens useful insights in order to understand these developments. Starting from marine environment protection as a nucleus of regional integration, I demonstrate spill-over effects to the field of education policy and higher education co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region. Following this, I analyze why there are no spill-over effects to the adjacent policy area of agriculture up to now.